HERDS OF CARIBOU. 263 



I spent some days hunting over the bogs 

 and "barrens" lying between the point where 

 the Exploits River flows out of King George's 

 Lake, and a line of hills which is part of a 

 range extending to the north-eastern end of 

 Lloyd's Lake. This range has a general 

 elevation of about two thousand feet, and 

 was known in former days to the Indians 

 by the name of " Annieopsquatsch." There 

 are no Indians there now, but when Mr. Howley 

 surveyed this part of the country he retained 

 the ancient name for this range of hills. 



In spite of the wretched weather I saw a 

 good many caribou near King George's Lake. 

 They were all over the open grassy bogs in 

 herds of from eight or ten to over twenty, a big 

 old master stag with each herd. There can be 

 no doubt, I think, that the caribou in this 

 district never migrate to the north across the 

 railway line. 



All along the river from Lloyd's Lake we had 

 seen numbers of small spruce trees broken to 

 pieces in the early autumn by stags when 

 clearing their horns of velvet, which is a 



